what will i do when i don't have you to hold onto in the dark?

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Ugh, this has taken me long enough.

Hey, manipulant, I hope you love me with all of your bourbon heart, okay?



Two more for the Into The Woods set. (And I post in the order they were drawn, not the order of the chapters. Just... FYI. Like it matters.)

I feel like at this point it's mostly pointless/redundant to state just how completely I employ the term "loosely based upon", but for posterity. VERY. VERY LOOSELY BASED UPON.

Frankelstilskin


In what was probably one of the most appropriate casting decisions made within fandom, Frank Iero plays a guitar-toting Rumpelstiltskin. Strums straw into gold and doles out free relationship advice. Bonus penis-having recognition abilities.



The Pea Episode


WAITWAITWAIT HEAR ME OUT, IT MAKES SENSE, I PROMISE. Well. Kind of it does.
So the Princess And The Pea. Better known as the Pea Episode. I had no idea what to draw, because it's all... tame. Like, nothing really horrible happens to anybody, there's no impending doom, no swan-dives into giant piles of thorns. Everyone is kind of cranky and petulant, but that doesn't exactly translate to my, uh. Style. If you could call it that. But then there's this creepy-ass dream sequence with pseudo-zombie Brendon (manipulant, correct me if my interpretation's wrong) that goes all nuts and starts pushing people off cliffs and just being all sketchy all over the place. So duh. Artistic license blah blah excuse to draw creepy veiny organ-chair blah.



and night comes to Tallahassee


This just sort of happened while I was listening to Oceanographer's Choice on repeat. John Darnielle writes some of my most very favorite words.



And a bonus doodle!

you are my anchor


My Man Without Wax fangirling, let me show you it.
Although, I'm pretty sure that when they put You are my anchor on their band shirts, they meant it in the nice way.
...Ohwell.



Bigger, shinier versions here, at my Blogspot.
...Maybe someday I'll even have followers. And like. triple-digit pageviews. Lol.

Comments

Re: ETA:

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go draw lace! dooooo iiiiiit :D :D

I have a soft spot for Jon/Spencer fic, because Spencer is all high strung stress ball trying to baby sit his band and Jon's all '...dude, spencer, brendon and ryan are adults, they can look after themselves, chill out.' - basicall,y oh jwalk, come hang out with me and be chill and make everything seem less stressy.

I don't know if this side of my fandom adoration is creepy because he isn't in a band or anything, but like, I have such a huge soft spot for Nick Scimeca in fic? Like, he is just like, behind the scenes BFF with everyone in bandom, and there's this fic, where he marries his bff? that was beautiful perfection. Since that fic, I just like, smile if he shows up in a fic.

I need to rec you some fic when I'm home, fo'sure, but if you hit back up to that BBB art post I linked you and find the one named "boys in chicago" - start there. I mean, I wasn't huge on the 'panic being all married to each other with a daughter' thing, but I love JWalk, coming in to pick up his drunk bffs Tom and Nick etc, JWalk was rad in that, and it was honestly the best Tomrad fic. being mildly creepy in a well meaning way!

Oh man, I am so over invested in panic, I just haven't been keeping tabs on them as much lately. The snark kept making me sad D:
If you ever find out what's the go between Spencer and Ryan these days, I'd love to know. :D

Re: ETA:

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I have EVERY INTENTION. I'm just off for the weekend and I don't get to draw again for... a distressing number of days. BALLS. Argh. But yeah. lace. It's so on.

So I'm assuming, just from that little possibly-hypothetical scene you described there, that you've read the Forever, Now series? I mostly read Spencer/Brendon, since that's what the authors I like tend to write, but I find that if the writer makes it work, I'm pretty un-picky. All I ask is- NO MORE PANIC!-FORMATION FIC, PLEASE. PLEASE, GUYS. IS IT SOME UNWRITTEN BANDOM RULE THAT EVERY AUTHOR HAS TO, AT SOME POINT, WRITE A VERSION OF THE PANIC!-FORMATION STORY? MAKE IT STOP.

I'd say it's not creepy. I mean, what- any more creepy than the idea of reading rpf to begin with? Psh, whatever. Besides, he's Mr Scene King, he basically inserts himself forcefully. ...Not that I've actually encountered any firsthand, but I hear tell, and I know what you're talking about. I have a few character-types who make me boundlessly happy at their mere mention. Side character-style Jon and Ryan, any member of Cobra, Travie, William. Like, as soon as someone mentions so much as "coffee shop" or "Starbucks" or "barefoot", I start grinning my fic!Jon grin.

Sweet! I have no idea what you've read or what you're into, but I've amassed a pretty good collection since November if you want some reciprocation. It's going to take me FOREVER to read stuff for the foreseeable future, but yeah. I have a rec list. Thank youuu.

I think the only person I could say I'm legitimately invested in as far as the bandom spectrum is concerned is Patrick Stump. Idk. He's a cool dude. Panic, however, is so fucking ENTERTAINING. I mean, everything they do- the drama, the bromance, the catty bullshit. All of it just makes this voyeuristic schadenfreude-happy part of my soul tingle with glee. I think it's very similar reasoning as to why I love working with teenagers so much. And then TAI announces a split and it turns into Beckett and The Butcher crying at each other over Twitter all day. Oh, boys.
(my interest in the Ryan-Spencer thing makes me feel a little like a creeper. It's deeply rooted in my obsession with like, people and people's brains and social shit and all the reasons I love my job, but at the same time it breaks my heart a little on this very personal level where I've had the same bff since we were six and if that got fucked up, my world would end abruptly. I don't believe for a second all that half-assed crap they mutter about "oh yeah, uh. we still hang out sometimes. shit's cool. seriously." while simultaneously having this semi-subtle cold war thing happening. What even.)

Re: ETA:

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Weekend! I plan to draw so much (except tbh, I have so many social things I have to do this weekend. SIGH.)

I think it was in a LOT of fic? but i love that series a little bit, for their Brendon. I read the second one first, and had to go back and read the other one later when I knew more about MCR. Dorkball brendon = the best. But also Jon saved kittens and stuff. ~awesome.

I honest to god haven't updated my delicious since 2008, and mostly I was just saving things to read later so idek how good some of these actually are but; bandom au fic fresh off the 2008!press :D

turns out I have about nine cobra fic in that, which bites. However one of them is this gem in which Gabe meets justin Timberlake (who actually like the Gabe!character of the TheSocialNetwork fandom, it's a bit hilarious.)

This fic where Nick Scimeca plans his wedding is awesome, but the one where Nick plans Jon and Ryan's wedding is possibly even better (He has to wait to congratulate Ryan because Kanye's deep in conversation with him about clothes. "Tell me more about paisley," Kanye says and Nick thinks this is probably a good time to interrupt. I mean, really. A++)

(honestly, it just looks like all I read are ridiculous AUs that try to shoe horn all the celebrities I've ever mildly enjoyed into them. and I do. I just can't think of OTHER fic I enjoy right now? you should hit me up with fic recs too! for sure. I'll totally have more for you when I've dug out where I've been saving the book marks too)

I'm invested in panic in a way where they make me smile and I adore them for it. (and oh god, butcher leaving TAI; who will go steal shit with Sisky now!? D: so sad.)

Oh Ryan and Spencer. I really want to just continue to believe in my head that they're still friends. (there was some picture of Ryan Brendon and Spencer at a bar together they tweeted recentish-ly ago? idk, i don't follow any of them on twitter so I miss a lot of that.) and it really was just a split on a difference in musical opinions? but then they're all catty about each other and it's like they WANT to shatter my ridiculous happy!fantasy world. D: